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The Daily Adventures of Mixerman

de Mixerman

(Book). Mixerman is a recording engineer working with a famous producer on the debut album of an unknown band with a giant recording budget. Mixerman is supposed to be writing about recording techniques, but...

Adventures of a Waterboy

de Mike Scott

(Book). "I was six or seven when I noticed the music in my head. It was there in the classroom, on the football pitch, at the dinner table, when I went to sleep and when I woke up. And it's continued ever since."...

The Dark Knight Trilogy: The Complete Screenplays with Storyboards

de Christopher Nolan

(Book). At nearly six hundred pages, The Dark Knight Trilogy , a behemoth of script and storyboards, captures on the page the dark mythic expanse of the cinematic Batman. These definitive, vibrant film blueprints...

This Business of Urban Music: A Practical Guide to Achieving Success in the Industry, from Gospel to Funk to R &B to Hip-Hop

de James Walker

The first reference book all about the business side of gospel and urban music. Hip-hop and R&B hold 25 percent of the consumer music market. Another 20 percent is held by religious (gospel and Christian) music,...

GLENN HUGHES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROM DEEP PURPLE TO BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION

de Joel McIver

Vocalist bassist and songwriter Glenn Hughes is a living breathing personification of British rock and the arc of his career and attendant lifestyle make for a compelling story. Starting with the Midlands beat...

Ticket to the Opera: Discovering and Exploring 100 Famous Works, History, Lore, and Singers, with Rec

de Phil G. Goulding

In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all. Here he offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical terms, opera...

Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton's Little John?: Music's Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed

de Gavin Edwards

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, and . . . Ham Sandwiches?

If you are a music fan, you may be aware of some of music’s most enduring mysteries. Where did Pearl Jam get their name? Are the White Stripes related by...

Classical Music Top 40: Learn How to Listen to and Appreciate the 40 Most Popular and Important Pieces I

de Anthony Rudel

The quintessential primer for the budding classical music lover.

Millions of people adore classical music. Millions of other people want to, but simply don’t know how or where to start—so many composers,...

Pocket Karaoke

de Sarah Lewitinn

Your nights of poring over massive karaoke binders are over! With more than two thousand songs handpicked and organized by music industry insider and DJ Sarah Lewitinn (a.k.a. Ultragrrrl), Pocket Karaoke is...

Big Star: The Story of Rock's Forgotten Band: Revised & Updated Edition

de Rob Jovanovic

(Book). "We've sort of flirted with greatness," R.E.M.'s Peter Buck admitted. "But we've yet to make a record as good as Big Star's Third ." Although Big Star were together for less than four years and had little...

Giacomo Puccini: A Discography

de Roger Flury

In Giacomo Puccini: A Discography, librarian and music historian Roger Flury brings together information on nearly 10,000 recordings of Giacomo Puccini's music. Flury looks at each of Puccini's operas chronologically...

The Wagner Compendium: A Guide to Wagner's Life and Music

de Barry Millington

The unrivaled single-volume survey of Wagner's life and workEdited by one of the leading Wagner scholars of modern times, and with contributions from seventeen experts from around the world, The Wagner Compendium...

Merciless Book of Metal Lists

de Howie Abrams & Sacha Jenkins

The Merciless Book of Metal Listsáis an irreverent and illustrated compendium of the most random, funny, and challenging information about Heavy Metal from the last 40 years. You want to know which Metal albums...

The Jerome Kern Encyclopedia

de Thomas S. Hischak

Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers. The Jerome Kern Encyclopedia consists of entries on people, theatre and film musicals,...

Shakespeare on Theatre

de William Shakespeare & Nick de Somogyi

(Book). Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here...

Chekhov on Theatre

de Anton Chekhov, Stephen Mulrine & Jutta Hercher

(Book). Chekhov started writing about theatre in newspaper articles and in his own letters even before he began writing plays. Later, he wrote in detail about his own plays to his lifelong friend and mentor...

The Patient Ecstasy of Fraulein Braun

de Lavonne Mueller

(Book). Eva understands Hitler is married to Germany and must herself stand back unacknowledged as he enclasps the world in a passionate, python-like thrall. Until the last days in the final chapter of the Third...

Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo and Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc.

de Howard Kaylan & Jeff Tamarkin

(Book). If Howard Kaylan had sung only one song, the Turtles' 1967 No. 1 smash hit "Happy Together," his place in rock-and-roll history would still be secure. But that recording, named in 1999 by BMI as one...

Read & Burn: A Book about Wire

de Wilson Neate

(Book). Read & Burn is the first serious, in-depth appraisal of Wire, one of the most influential British bands to emerge during the punk era. If Wire were briefly a punk band, however, it was largely by historical...

And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Records

de Larry Harris, Curt Gooch & Jeff Suhs

(Book). Now it can be told! The true, behind-the-scenes story of Casablanca Records, from an eyewitness to the excess and insanity. Casablanca was not a product of the 1970s, it was the 1970s. From 1974 to 1980,...